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The Glow

Alistair McDowall author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:24th Jan '22

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Alistair McDowall's supernatural thriller, written for London's Royal Court Theatre as the Harold Pinter Commission.

People find me. When it’s dark.

1863. An asylum.

A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there.

When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect candidate.

But as the woman’s past begins to reveal itself, so do new powers neither are prepared for.

Alistair McDowall’s haunting new play The Glow was the 2018 Pinter Commission, an award given annually by Lady Antonia Fraser to support a new commission at the Royal Court Theatre.

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London’s Royal Court Theatre in January 2022.

Myth and history collide in a sci-fi spine-tingler ... Sci-fi is too rarely done on stage but here McDowall has chosen the perfect medium. How better to tell a story about the perils of immortality and the fear of carrying on alone than through an art form built for impermanence, with stories that can live longer than we do? * Guardian *

ISBN: 9781350329843

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 10mm

Weight: 120g

136 pages